Staff to Report for Supt. Conference Tues., But Students Remain Home

Tuesday's Superintendent's Conference is still happening for staff members, according to the Lindenhurst School District, but students will remain home for the regularly scheduled Election Day holiday.

A new update was posted to the Lindenhurst Schools website on Monday afternoon:

"Tuesday, November 6, is a regularly scheduled Superintendent's Conference Day. The schools will be open for staff from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. (except aides and permanent substitutes).

"All teachers are to report to their home schools including art, music, health and physical education teachers who were originally scheduled for offsite conferences. Any staff with a split schedule between Harding Avenue Elementary School and another school, please report to Harding Avenue first.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with those families who have been impacted by this catastrophe.

"Please check back for further information and updates."

As for whether or not schools will remain closed on Wednesday, November 7, school officials said on Saturday the call will be made on Tuesday.

And Superintendent Richard Nathan told Lindenhurst Patch on Monday afternoon, "We're waiting to open the schools on Wednesday, hopefully, but we'll have to get the latest update on the weather."

This is key since meteorologists are currently tracking a Noreaster that's predicted to affect the area on Wednesday and Thursday - an area that's already been largely decimated by Sandy's fury and record-high flood waters.

And because Harding Avenue is still without power, it forced the Suffolk County Board of Elections on Monday to move residents who normally vote there to Bower Elementary School for the November 6 presidential election.

Though okay after having some water pumped out of the boiler room following Sandy, Nathan told Patch on Monday that between the dusk to dawn curfew imposed by Suffolk Police and Babylon Town until further notice, and the fact the school still doesn't have power, he told County BOE officials it didn't make sense to keep it as a polling place.

He said he declined the Board's offer to open it with heaters and generators, opting for the safety of residents South of Montauk Highway who've been severely impacted by Sandy.

"I didn't feel comfortable doing that," he said.

And the Board responded accordingly, changing the polling location on Monday afternoon from Harding to Bower - which now has power, the superintendent noted.

All other polling places in Lindenhurst remain the same for Election Day, as all other schools in the District now have power.

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